CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 350

In any birther communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 30954/15,

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State.

Foreign Ofl.co.

London.

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FOREIGN OFFICE

March 19th, 1915.

Rro 20 MAR 15

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Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform

you that he has been in communication with the Army

Council with regard to your letter, No.9427 of the 8th

instant, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the

Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the transmission of

cypher telegrams from that island by the United States

Consul General to his Government at Washington.

I am to state that the Army Council concur in Sir

1. Grey's opinion that to grant the facilities desired

by the United States Consul General at Hong Kong would be

to create a dangerous precedent, and that the attitude

of the Hong Kong Government in declining to do so was

correct.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Mamia de Nunsen